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Guests
by the Humanities Team, February 21, 2011 11:47 AM
The Poetic Edda is an excellent introduction to the Norse mythology that heavily influenced the works of authors such as Borges, Nietzche, and Tolkien. Henry Adams Bellows's translation is engaging. And, though it is well-annotated, it is never
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Poetry
by the Humanities Team, December 1, 2010 10:04 AM
Rainer Maria Rilke might be the perfect winter poet — elegiac, compassionate, imagistic, and philosophical. This volume collects almost all of Edward Snow's highly acclaimed (and our favorite) translations of
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Poetry
by the Humanities Team, December 1, 2010 9:53 AM
The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins are poems that beg to be read aloud. Strange diction, fervent sound-play, and an inimitable power to follow nature with a turning, unrelenting, articulate eye are the wonders of Hopkins's
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by the Humanities Team, December 1, 2010 9:43 AM
Consigned to notebooks by one of Rome's last great emperors, Meditations contains the blood and fire of Stoic philosophy. It has been a favorite for many ages and graced the bedside of kings and laity
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